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SUN PRAIRIE - Reuben A. Birrenkott, age 86, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, at home after a valiant battle with lung cancer.

BARABOO / JANESVILLE - John Franklin Bell, age 79, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.

MADISON - Kay S. Taube, age 69, died on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, due to complications from pneumonia.

MONTELLO - Eldon Henry "Duke" Himsel, age 81, and his wife of 61 years, Beverley Jean Himsel, met Jesus together, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Eldon was born March 23, 1933, on the family farm in…

MONTELLO - Beverley Jean Himsel, age 82, and her husband of 61 years, Eldon Henry Himsel, met Jesus together, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.

DEFOREST / RACINE - Paul R. Schenkenberg, age 72, went home to his Heavenly Father on Nov. 26, 2014, after 45 years of battling diabetes. He was born on May 23, 1942, the son of Cyrus C. and M…

MIDDLETON - Chaplain James M. "Jim" Ehlers, age 92, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, at Sterling House.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Karen Marie (Thompson) Medhi, age 54, passed away on Nov. 18, 2014, at Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. A service of celebratio…

DODGEVILLE - Bryce Thomas Heckendorf, 18 months, earned his superhero cape and angel wings on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, after a brave and courageous yearlong battle with Krabbe Disease.

Until last week, TV Land allowed me a pleasant half-hour escape to a heartwarming, 1980s-era comedy that featured an affluent black family living in Brooklyn, New York — the Huxtables.

Deputies arrested a 32-year-old Belleville man Friday afternoon after he lost control of his car and struck an electrical pole, causing a tree to start on fire.

Fans attending Saturday's Badger Football game against longtime rival Minnesota Gophers will be able to enjoy the game with lots of sun and balmy temperatures, according to forecasters.

Madison police are currently searching for three suspects in connection with a Friday night robbery of a Richard Street home.

The nominee must be a licensed hunter who did something ethical during 2014. The act need not have occurred during deer season, but many do. 

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN — On my way to the Badgers football game, I pulled up next to a car with Iowa license plates at a convenience store. On one side, a red and white Wisconsin pennant flew. From …

Games such as today’s showdown between Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium just don’t come around very often.

More than eight months after the University of Wisconsin lost to Penn State in 2013’s regular-season finale, Gary Andersen wanted his team to relive it.

The Green Bay Packers special teams ace missed last Sunday's game at Minnesota — just the seventh time out of a possible 139 games of his nine-year NFL career that he did not play.

UW-Whitewater football coach Lance Leipold understands success can often lead to opportunity.

State Journal reporter Jim Polzin breaks down the matchups in Saturday's game.